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    Explosion at Japanese Nuclear power plant

    Radiation leak reported........Hope there's no meltdown........


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    wow as if things couldnt get any worst...

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    this just flat out sucks

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    Hard to comprehend that kind of destruction.

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    sucks for all those asians...glad i live here

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    The explosion at the nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, but a radiation leak was decreasing despite fears of a meltdown from damage caused by a powerful earthquake(6.8) and tsunam,i spokesman Yukio Edano said the explosion destroyed the exterior walls of the building where the reactor is placed, but not the actual metal housing enveloping the reactor.

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    unreal...not a good time to be living in japan....

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    This is incredible... I feel sorry for Japan

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    this could get bad

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    Awful tradegy, hope everything will be ok soon.

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    call me crazy but I am somewhat of a believer in the whole 2012 apocalypse. these disasaters keep getting worse and worse. the US is due for an incredible earthquake very soon as well.

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    Reactor's metal housing is still intact and there is no signficant radiation increase around the plant. No meltdown boys!

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    Building a Nuclear Power Plant near a fault line.....this was bound to happen.

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    What a shame. I feel for them.

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    Meltdown Caused Nuke Plant Explosion: Safety Body

    TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Saturday afternoon the explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core.

    The same day, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), which runs the plant, began to flood the damaged reactor with seawater to cool it down, resorting to measures that could rust the reactor and force the utility to scrap it.

    Cesium and iodine, by-products of nuclear fission, were detected around the plant, which would make the explosion the worst accident in the roughly 50-year history of Japanese nuclear power generation.

    An explosion was heard near the plant's No. 1 reactor about 3:30 p.m. and plumes of white smoke went up 10 minutes later. The ceiling of the building housing the reactor collapsed, according to information obtained by Fukushima prefectural authorities.

    At a news conference Saturday night, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano discounted the possibility of a significant leak of radioactive material from the accident. "The walls of the building containing the reactor were destroyed, meaning that the metal container encasing the reactor did not explode," Edano said.

    The amount of radiation detected inside the plant after 4:00 p.m. slightly exceeded the dose people can safely receive in a year, according to information obtained by the Fukushima prefectural government.

    The No. 1 reactor shut down automatically soon after a massive earthquake hit the area Friday, but its emergency core cooling system failed to cool the reactor's core sufficiently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeffdane View Post
    call me crazy but I am somewhat of a believer in the whole 2012 apocalypse. these disasaters keep getting worse and worse. the US is due for an incredible earthquake very soon as well.
    Natural disasters are getting worse, but that doesn't mean the world will end in less than 12 months. If you follow science you'd know this, if you follow movies and myths then you primarily think of... the myth of 2012.

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    Tough luck for them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JOHON8 View Post
    Natural disasters are getting worse, but that doesn't mean the world will end in less than 12 months. If you follow science you'd know this, if you follow movies and myths then you primarily think of... the myth of 2012.
    I'm 45 and there have been natural disasters for at least 40 years, they are nothing new. They happen every year. Not that I don't feel for the victims, I do. It is something that happens all the time.

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    Man it sucks for those guys things just keep getting worse and worse. It's unreal how many earthquakes and other natural disasters have been occurring in the past year or two. The earth is falling apart man.

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    .............Hard to comprehend that kind of destruction.

    exactly what i was thinking--terrible for those people

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    They will bounce back and get help hopefully. The worst should be over now.

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    If there was a radiation leak, do you think the government would admit it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reno Paul View Post
    Radiation leak reported........Hope there's no meltdown........
    Meltdown "possible" at two of the reactors ...

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ear/index.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by JOHON8 View Post
    Natural disasters are getting worse, but that doesn't mean the world will end in less than 12 months. If you follow science you'd know this, if you follow movies and myths then you primarily think of... the myth of 2012.
    Lol.
    I stopped following movies when judgement day from terminator 2 passed (and we are still here.)

    BtB

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    They are now saying thousands are missing. Hopefully "they" are wrong.

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    the world is coming to an end.. slowly...

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    surely it wont be as bad as the radiation the united states gave them

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    Planning on taking a trip to Idaho....

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    Quote Originally Posted by antifoil View Post
    surely it wont be as bad as the radiation the united states gave them




    I got tons of jokes ready to go - but have been told it's "Too Soon"


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    Just heard on the news that 9 people has already died due to the radiation.....Partial meltdown of reactor going on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by antifoil View Post
    surely it wont be as bad as the radiation the united states gave them
    that was 66 years ago , this is today .

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    They'll be fine

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    Nuclear is a stupid way to go anyway. risk not worth reward. they should shut them all down

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    Total devastation!!!

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    supposedly a second one just blew , scientist say things has just begun as we are in the solar cycle 24 where the solar flares are strong as hell ,will cause alot of mayhem.(apparently solar flares are linked to earthquakes and volcano etc.) our prayers to everybody and everything.

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